A day to remember people who don’t exist
It’s Trans Day of Remembrance again? Still? Always?
A Scottish council has been accused by JK Rowling of honouring the death of a notoriously violent transgender prisoner by flying a flag above its headquarters.
Edinburgh City Council flew the pink, blue and white-striped flag above the city chambers on Wednesday to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance.
Why? Why did Edinburgh City Council do that? Does it fly a flag for a Day of Remembrance for all the sets of people who are neglected or oppressed or abused or exploited before it bothers with people who have luxury fantasy identities?
In a message posted on X, formerly Twitter, the local authority said it was a “day to remember people who have lost their lives in acts of transgender violence”.
What people? There aren’t any. Trans people are one of the safer demographics. The local authority should talk to a woman now and then.
Feminist campaigners said the only Scot included in the official list of those being commemorated was Tiffany Scott, who was one of the UK’s most violent inmates before [his] death earlier this year.
Scott, who was previously known as Andrew Burns, had been convicted of a string of offences, including stalking a 13-year-old girl from behind bars by sending letters.
The criminal came out as transgender in 2016 but is understood never to have begun any physical transitioning nor to have possessed a gender recognition certificate.
And he was in no way a victim of violence against trans people. One, he was a perp himself, and two, he was not a victim of violence.
Questions were also raised about Scott’s inclusion on an international list of people being commemorated for TDOR as there had been no suggestion that the criminal’s death was linked to transphobia.
For Women Scotland (FWS), a feminist campaign group that led opposition to Nicola Sturgeon’s self-ID gender reforms, posted: “So Edinburgh City Council flew a flag for this violent man? Who made that decision?”
Marion Calder, a FWS director, said: “It’s absolutely ridiculous for Edinburgh Council to raise this flag. It’s virtue signalling for one of the most dangerous prisoners that Scotland has ever had.”
Hey now, he called himself Tiffany. Isn’t that enough??
When Scott died earlier this year, [he] was serving an indefinite sentence under an order for lifelong restriction and had been described as one of the most “menacing people” in the Scottish prison system. Scott had been deemed an “unmanageable risk to public safety” and could only ever have been released if it was decided this was no longer the case.
The convict had attacked a nurse in Cheshire in 2010 and committed a series of other offences while in custody. These included attacking a prison nurse with a chair, punching and attempting to bite prison officers, smearing excrement in a cell and ripping up “tear-proof” clothing in a suicide attempt.
A Hannibal Lecter wannabe.
Not a victim of “anti-trans” violence.
There you go again, centering cis murder victims with their dead privilege. Misgendering can leave a trans person feeling dead inside. That’s literal murder too, you know. /s
I like how Rowling cuts right to the point, to the meaning of the action not the intent. With the TRAs and their acolytes it’s always “never mind the lies, just feel the feels”. Fortunately Rowling is someone who knows a bit about the seductions of fantasy and is not fooled. We are so lucky to have her.
A message so poorly written, it could genuinely be understood to refer to people who have lost their lives to violence by trans people.
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This could be a great time to bombard the council’s social media with mentions of such victims.
You don’t have to worry about being literate on twitter/X. As if it makes any difference.
Have any of the deaths of transpeople been convincingly linked to transphobia? I haven’t seen any, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any out there, since I don’t know about every murder that occurs everywhere.
The insidious thing about this idea is that people who are unaware of the statistics are going to be fooled into believing that there must be many such victims, otherwise why set a day aside to “commemorate” them? It’s all part of the calculated trans attempt to identify into the “victim” category, and out of the “oppressor” one. This self-promotion of supposed victimhood and precariousness is designed to prevent resistance to the trans agenda, to put opponents on the defensive. Why would you want to say “No” to the requests of a frightened, beleaguered minority which is being slaughtered all around you by the forces of transphobic hatred? Why deny them this one day? Or anything? YOU MONSTER!
Not only is it a part of the ongoing, constant “trans” celebrations/reminders/warnings intended to keep us aware, defensive, and compliant, it also helps deflect attention from the real power and influence that gender ideology wields. Like the power to get town councils and police services to recognize this bogus “day of remembrance” (modelled no doubt on November 11’s Remembrance Day, as solemnly commemorated in the British Commonwealth, instituted following the societal trauma resulting from what was originally called The Great War, but renamed World War I once the sequel had broken out twenty years later). Like the power that allows the shameless trans intrusion upon memorial services marking the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, simultaneously grabbing the spotlight for themselves, and erasing the victimization and murder of women. They wanted to be engineers You want to be victims. (Or at lease seen as victims, without the suffering and death). Why deny women this one day? You monsters.